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Uniform Indians: Personal Reflections on the Eastern Band Cherokee Boarding School Experience

Uniform Indians: Personal Reflections on the Eastern Band Cherokee Boarding School Experience uniform indians: personal reflections on the eastern band cherokee boarding school experience Sarah Margaret Sneed My sister and I grew up away from our people, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, but our bedtime stories were most often about my mother’s days as a student at the Cherokee Boarding School. The stories were retold often and furnished us a bond to our tribe that was sustained during the time our family lived out west. Our mom, born Mary Smith, told about how one day around 1920 , while picking blackberries, she and her sister, Rosie, were scooped up by John Crowe, a tribal lawman and truant officer, placed into the back of a wagon with other children and taken to the Cherokee Boarding School. Her widowed mother, Lucy Ann, had not given consent, nor was she notified, that her daughters had been taken to school. Mom never mentioned her oldest sister, Annie, when she told this story. Indeed, Annie may well have been away working as a servant in a white family’s home, as part of the boarding school program known as “Outing,” in which students were placed for employment. Mom said that, once at school, she had been http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

Uniform Indians: Personal Reflections on the Eastern Band Cherokee Boarding School Experience

Sneed, Sarah Margaret.
Appalachian Review , Volume 37 (4) – Nov 1, 2009
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uniform indians: personal reflections on the eastern band cherokee boarding school experience Sarah Margaret Sneed My sister and I grew up away from our people, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, but our bedtime stories were most often about my mother’s days as a student at the Cherokee Boarding School. The stories were retold often and furnished us a bond to our tribe that was sustained during the time our family lived out west. Our mom, born Mary Smith, told about how one day around 1920 , while picking blackberries, she and her sister, Rosie, were scooped up by John Crowe, a tribal lawman and truant officer, placed into the back of a wagon with other children and taken to the Cherokee Boarding School. Her widowed mother, Lucy Ann, had not given consent, nor was she notified, that her daughters had been taken to school. Mom never mentioned her oldest sister, Annie, when she told this story. Indeed, Annie may well have been away working as a servant in a white family’s home, as part of the boarding school program known as “Outing,” in which students were placed for employment. Mom said that, once at school, she had been

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Published: Nov 1, 2009

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